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Our next interview is with Ric Parks. He is a founder of AfterVault. The company, which helps you organize, safely store and deliver your crucial information to your family, after you die. 1. What is your idea/ business about? How the idea was born? Are there things your family needs to know if you’re no longer there? Life insurance, your will, health directives, location of accounts: AfterVault securely organizes and stores this information and automatically delivers it if something happens to you. We provide highly secure cloud-based vaults that help you organize your information so that everything is clear if the time comes when your family needs it. AfterVault started a couple of years ago as a simple idea. I was paying my bills with my online bill pay service, when it struck me that my wife wouldn’t even be able to find the bills, let alone pay them, if something happened to me. I wanted her to receive a simple email to remind her how to find and access our online bills if I suddenly wasn’t there. Of course the challenge was how I could determine if I wasn’t there. I thought about this issue for a while and I don’t really recall what clicked for me, but I realized that a series of automated pings, using email or text messaging, could do a pretty good job of determining if I was still able to deal with our affairs. For me, it was exactly what I wanted. The solution was lightweight and easy to set up but it still would solve the bulk of my issues without a lot of fuss or bureaucracy. My problem was only how to tell my wife how to locate all this information that was spread around in different places. I researched and found,…

Our next interview is with Anvita Bhandari. She is a co-coordinator and part of the BOMT (Born of a Million Thought) 1. What is your idea/ business about? How the idea was born? As the name suggests, the idea was all about expressing thoughts, be it our own thoughts or somebody else’s. Initially, the idea was to bring out real life stories and experiences that have never been heard before. 2. Tell me about yourself and your team? Born and brought up in Delhi, I have always been a very introvert person. I did my schooling from Montfort School, Delhi and Raffles International School, Rajasthan. Currently I’m studying law and I’ve always aspired to be someone like my father. When the idea of BOMT struck, it was just the two of us. We never knew that it’ll turn out to be so huge! Soon, we saw a team of 50 people, who had very similar ideas, standing by us. And today, I can proudly say that BOMT is the best team ever! 3. What are the main struggles that you have experienced? I haven’t really faced any kind of struggles in my life. I believe that everyone goes through that rough patch sometime or the other in their lives, so such rough patch of my life was leaving home to live in a hostel because it was quite unexpected & unplanned. Another problem that I faced in my life was difficulty in choosing a suitable career for me, because I was interested in so many things altogether. 4. How did you solve your problems? For every problem that I face, I just give it some time, since I believe that rushing things never works. So all I do is just give it some time and then make a move. 5….

Entrepreneurship in the health sector is growing rapidly and we can see many great solutions, which are improving our lives. In this interview we will meet you with a Nikolaj Kjær Nielsen from Denmark. He is the founder of Sarita CareTech. 1. What is your idea/ business about? How the idea was born? The idea for Sarita CareTech was born in 2011, when our founder, Nikolaj Kjær Nielsen, worked at a Nursing home. Part of his job, was administering medicine to one of the patients before bedtime. One morning, as he came to check on her, he found her lying on the floor. She had fallen during the night, unable to call for help, meaning no one knew of her mishap. In order to prevent a similar situation from ever occurring again, Nikolaj pulled together a talented team of people, who have worked tirelessly for the past three years to create an efficient, electronic and user-friendly solution, the Sarita Smart Necklace, pioneering to prevent anyone from facing an injury without immediate help. Sarita alerts the guardians if the elderly user has fallen, wandered off or is in need of assistance. The Sarita connects to our online service, Sarita Lighthouse. From here you can monitor the user’s health, whereabouts, the device’s battery level, and set up your network of guardians. 2. Tell me about yourself and your team? The team consists of the two founders Nikolaj, the hardware engineer and CEO, and Nikolai, the software engineer and resident Rubik’s cube master. Then we have Rasmine, our office manager, keeping the lights on and everyone sane, Daniel, the PR and sales manager, always looking for new ways to spread the word about Sarita, and Denés, our chief marketing manager, keeping up with our finances and designing websites and marketing campaigns. Our team…